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Let's Look at Addlestone

This remarkable and poignant film from the Crouch Oak Cine Group shows life's transit - from birth to old age - in the Surrey town of Addlestone

Amateur film 1966 15 mins Silent

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Overview

This well constructed film, set entirely in Addlestone, starts with a community midwife attending a home birth. We then see a post-natal clinic where babies are weighed before visiting a nursery and a children’s playground. We see children of all ages walking to school while new school buildings are under construction. At a youth club teenagers play sports and dance to a live band. We then see adults shopping, commuting and relaxing before we end at a home for the elderly.